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Plan launched in 2010 has attracted talent by granting
substantial investment funds. It has attracted 100,000

talented individuals so far. As a result, in the 2017
China’s Urban Science and Technology Innovation and
Development Report, Shenzhen ranked second in the

Technology Innovation and Development Index of China,
next to Beijing; in 2017, its gross domestic product (GDP)
also surpassed Hong Kong for the first time, reaching RMB
2.24 trillion (about HK$2.76 trillion).

238 What is Hong Kong’s advantage in attracting talent? At the
end of 2017, the World Talent Ranking of the International
Institute for Management Development in Lausanne,

Switzerland ranked Hong Kong as Asia’s best for our
overall performance in education, on-the-job training,
quality of living, salary, and tax rate. Because of Hong
Kong’s exposure and reputation, we have been positioned
by the central government as an “international innotech

hub”. We are very strong in nurturing talent, we have an
open society, comprehensive infrastructure, an effective
legal system and the enactment of law.